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“Mr Trumper, make the most of this opportunity to make a fresh start.” I had every intention of following this advice, although I didn’t know what direction to take.
I often need to remind myself to stop thinking about the past and stop worrying about the future. I need to live in the now and be happy about what I have, rather than worried or resentful about what I don’t have.
From the outside, I am now an unemployed doctor still dealing with the fallout from a devastating addiction 21 months later. Internally, I have been transformed into a more whole human being who now has a deeper sense of the existential nature of my own reality. Re-connection has saved me from the dark isolation of my own destructive thinking.
… began taking drugs when she was 12 and started using heroin when she was 16. She ended up in a treatment service six years later, but relapsed soon after leaving. LIH later made the decision to stop using all substances and since that time she has been marching along her path to recovery.
This article was created when a client volunteered to be interviewed by Bob, co-editor of the Changing Times magazine, regarding his experiences of steroid use, over a period of several years and the consequential affects it has had on both his physical and mental well being.
I spent over 30 years caught up in a desperate spiral of addiction. I had a successful career as a health professional, but lost everything over a very short period of time. Ended up in and out of prison, street homeless and very nearly lost my life on several occasions.
On my way home, I reflected on what had been said and it began to dawn on me that I was going through some kind of mourning process. I was missing my best mate [alcohol], so bloody much it actually hurt.
Shell spent time in and out of prison, and was nearly beaten to death by a boyfriend. With nowhere to go after the beating, she decided that prison was best – so committed a crime where she knew she would get caught. Then Shell’s mother gave her a lifeline… Read how Shell grabs this lifeline…
I’m starting to help a friend run SMART recovery groups at one of our local services and we run a peer support group. My life started the day I got out of prison and I’ve never looked back.
I am very glad I decided to live again. Not just exist as clean, but seize the opportunity to rebuild in a new area, new friends, new skills and new career.
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